Question: Why is 2048 more popular than Threes? Answers: Anthony Pecorella Director of production for virtual goods games at Kongregate There are two big reasons for this. a) 2048 was free. This is the biggest reason. Not...

Question: A simple question this week: what are you all playing at the moment? Tell me what’s captured your interest and why. Answers: Tadhg Kelly Developer relations at Ouya Well, like everyone I imagine, I’ve been checking out...

- The most successful indie game this decade, Minecraft, was available in alpha.
- Free-to-play games have soft launch, hard launch, major updates and so on.
- The concept of a Beta is falling by the wayside

What do you think the impact of sunsetting games will be on consumer comfort with spending money on virtual goods. Is there a “good” way of shutting down? Is it an inevitability of online games, particularly in...

Teut Weidemann has criticised the way that we present the data, saying:
"This suggests whales is everything. But you simply don't tell that 50% of the revenue is done by the rest of the users, no you even...

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